Top 56 All Maximus Quotes
#1. The aim of every hierarchy is always to imitate God so as to take on His form ... the task of every hierarchy is to receive and to pass on undiluted purification, the divine light, and the understanding which brings perfection.
Maximus The Confessor
#2. Some passions are bodily, other spiritual. Bodily passions have their sources in the body, while spiritual ones come from external things. But love and temperance cut out both the one and the other: Love cuts out spiritual passions, and temperance bodily ones.
Maximus The Confessor
#3. It is our Spiritual nature to understand, accept and allow our human nature.
Maximus Freeman
#4. As we have borne the image of the earthy, let us also bear the image of the heavenly
Maximus The Confessor
#6. Go with the ebbs and the flows, and allow this non-resistance to guide us to contentment.
Maximus Freeman
#7. He who has realized love for God in his heart is tireless in his pursuit of the Lord his God, and bears every hardship, reproach and insult nobly, never thinking the least evil of anyone.
Maximus The Confessor
#8. Cooperate with the inevitable; we all have inherent limitations and will make mistakes.
Maximus Freeman
#10. The laws are like spiders' webs: just as spiders' webs catch the weaker creatures but let the stronger ones through, so the humble and poor are restricted by the laws, but the rich and powerful are not bound by them (Valerius Maximus Memorable Deeds and Sayings 7.2 ext. 14).
J.C. McKeown
#11. Cleanse your mind from anger, remembrance of evil, and shameful thoughts, and then you will find out how Christ dwells in you.
Maximus The Confessor
#12. Love is manifested not only through the distribution of one's possessions, but even moreso through the spreading of the word of God and helpful deeds.
Maximus The Confessor
#14. Do not disdain the commandment to love, for through it you become a son of God, and when you break it, you become a son of Gehenna.
Maximus The Confessor
#15. When you find your soulmate, the word relationship is redefined as Divine adventure.
Maximus Freeman
#16. To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.
Fabius Maximus
#17. Overhead the moon guided him, his fair mistress, his unattainable lover.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#18. It would be the height of idiocy for the Duke of Wakefield to pursue the cousin of the woman he wanted as wife. And yet, for the first time in his life, Maximus wanted to let the man rule him instead of the title.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#19. Temptations come on some people for the cleansing of previous sins, on other for the beautification of their current perfection, and on yet others, as preparation for things to come, except temptations, which are for the increase of a man's faith and virtue, as it was with Job.
Maximus The Confessor
#20. If you beat a dead horse long enough,
you will eventually kill it.
Maximus Freeman
#21. He has as yet no perfect love, whose disposition towards men depends on what they are like, loving one and despising another for this or that, or sometimes loving, sometimes hating one and the same man. Blessed is the man who can love all men equally.
Maximus The Confessor
#22. In all our actions, God considers the intention: whether we act for Him or for some other motive.
Maximus The Confessor
#23. Fucking Little Fifteen Ada Palomino throwing change at a hotdog vendor and trying to catch up with Maximus, all long limbs and bad eye makeup. What the actual fuck?
Karina Halle
#24. Maximus was cleaning his blade on the dead man's wolfskin. 'You promised him his life,' the Greek said. 'No, I said death was his last worry.' Maximus swung up on to Pale Horse. 'Is that not so for all of us?
Harry Sidebottom
#25. Maximus," she whispered, all moonlight and strength. "I love you. Never forget that.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#26. Humility and ascetic hardship free a man from all sin, for the one cuts out the passions of the soul, the other those of the body. This is what the blessed David indicates when he prays to God, saying, "Look on my humility and my toil, and forgive all my sins" (Ps. 25:18).
Maximus The Confessor
#27. Whoever sees in himself the traces of hatred toward any man on account of any kind of sin is completely foreign to the love of God. For love toward God does not at all tolerate hatred for man.
Maximus The Confessor
#28. We are all Divine instruments of God. All we have to do is ask Him which music to play...
Maximus Freeman
#29. You can always run, but you can never hide from yourself...
Maximus Freeman
#30. I do not think you are in any danger of starving," Maximus said. "The surgeon said only two weeks ago that you are too fat."
"The devil!" Berkley said indignantly, sitting up; and Maximus snorted in amusement at having provoked him.
Naomi Novik
#32. Resist nothing, allow everything, and surrender that which persists.
Maximus Freeman
#34. Inasmuch as you pray with all your soul for the one who has slandered you, so much will God reveal the truth to them who have believed the slander.
Maximus The Confessor
#35. The truth about forever is that it never gets any closer or farther away.
Maximus Freeman
#36. Maximus turned to the house, thinking. He had no idea how he would do it yet, but he meant to best her. He'd show her that he was the master, and when she'd admitted his victory ... well, then he'd have her. And he'd hold her, by God. His huntress. His goddess.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#37. I will tell you what we shall do: if ever you need to rescue Catherine, or you Berkley, Maximus, I will help you, and you will do as much for me. Then we do not need to worry, I do not suppose anyone could stop all three of us, at least not before we can escape
Naomi Novik
#38. The person who truly wishes to be healed is he who does not refuse treatment. This treatment consists of the pain and distress brought on by various misfortunes. He who refuses them does not realize what they accomplish in this world or what he will gain from them when he departs this life.
Maximus The Confessor
#39. Every genuine confession humbles the soul. When it takes the form of thanksgiving, it teaches the soul that it has been delivered by the grace of God.
Maximus The Confessor
#40. One general, Fabius Maximus was nicknamed Cunctator, "the Procrastinator." He drove Hannibal, who had an obvious military superiority, crazy by avoiding and delaying engagement.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#41. In all of our deeds God looks at the intention, whether we do it for His sake, or for the sake of some other intention.
Maximus The Confessor
#42. Dispassion and humility lead to spiritual knowledge. Without them no one will see the Lord.
Maximus The Confessor
#43. Love: allowing everyone and everything to Be exactly as they are(the perfect and complete fulfillment of their essence and potentiality). Be Love...
Maximus Freeman
#44. Just as the thought of fire does not warm the body, so faith without love does not actualize the light of spiritual knowledge in the soul.
Maximus The Confessor
#45. Changing one's personality is as simple as stopping the earth's rotation; changing another's is even harder.
Maximus Freeman
#46. He who has not yet attained divine knowledge energized by love is proud of his spiritual progress. But he who has been granted such knowledge repeats with deep conviction the words uttered by the patriarch Abraham when he was granted the manifestation of God: 'I am dust and ashes' (Gen. 18:27).
Maximus The Confessor
#47. Passing thoughts are like passing gas. They both arrive with a rumble, and the bad ones linger a little too long.
Maximus Freeman
#48. If an unexpected temptation comes, don't blame the one through whom it came, but seek out the reason. Thus you will find correction for your soul.
Maximus The Confessor
#49. What we do in life, echoes in eternity.
Maximus
#50. If everything that exists was made by God and for God, and God is superior to the things made by Him, he who abandons what is superior and devotes Himself to what is inferior shows that he values things made by God more than God Himself.
Maximus The Confessor
#51. Unclean spirits increase the passions in us, making use of our negligence, and inciting them. But the angels decrease our passions, inciting us to the perfection of virtue.
Maximus The Confessor
#52. Humility and suffering free a man from all sin; for the first cuts out spiritual passions, and the latter bodily.
Maximus The Confessor
#53. When we judge others, the only one that we are truly defining is our self.
Maximus Freeman
#54. A pure heart is perhaps one which has no natural propulsion towards anything in any manner whatsoever. When in its extreme simplicity such a heart has become like a writing-tablet beautifully smoothed and polished, God comes to dwell in it and writes there His own laws.
Maximus The Confessor
#55. Olson's Maximus and Zukofsky's 'A' are too symbolically and verbally complex, respectively, to command large audiences especially in an age when a college degree is becoming a certificate of illiteracy.
Guy Davenport
#56. While sitting on the hopper, in a blissful state of belieflessness, the Universe sent me this silly pun: Arrogant know-it-alls actually know nothing,
while humble know-nothings seem to know everything...
Maximus Freeman
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